Download or read book Uncontrolled written by Jim Manzi and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we know which social and economic policies work, which should be continued, and which should be changed? Jim Manzi argues that throughout history, various methods have been attempted -- except for controlled experimentation. Experiments provide the feedback loop that allows us, in certain limited ways, to identify error in our beliefs as a first step to correcting them. Over the course of the first half of the twentieth century, scientists invented a methodology for executing controlled experiments to evaluate certain kinds of proposed social interventions. This technique goes by many names in different contexts (randomized control trials, randomized field experiments, clinical trials, etc.). Over the past ten to twenty years this has been increasingly deployed in a wide variety of contexts, but it remains the red-haired step child of modern social science. This is starting to change, and this change should be encouraged and accelerated, even though the staggering complexity of human society creates severe limits to what social science could be realistically expected to achieve. Randomized trials have shown, for example, that work requirements for welfare recipients have succeeded like nothing else in encouraging employment, that charter school vouchers have been successful in increasing educational attainment for underprivileged children, and that community policing has worked to reduce crime, but also that programs like Head Start and Job Corps, which might be politically attractive, fail to attain their intended objectives. Business leaders can also use experiments to test decisions in a controlled, low-risk environment before investing precious resources in large-scale changes -- the philosophy behind Manzi's own successful software company. In a powerful and masterfully-argued book, Manzi shows us how the methods of science can be applied to social and economic policy in order to ensure progress and prosperity.
Download or read book The Uncontrolled written by Zachary Astrowsky and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The robotic way people smile is John's first inclination that things are not quite as they seem in Grand Siles. Attending his last year of middle school, the boy's parents are forced to tell him about a plot so abominable that it upends John's world. At the age of fourteen, everyone is brainwashed with a tracking device by a society called Tracker for Globe "T.F.G." John, and his friends, Chase and Hazel, become aware of this hidden society tracking and controlling people when it is their turn to be implanted with the device. Over time plot twists come into play as John starts seeing visions of the future and a second secret group, the Renegades, work with John to fight the T.F.G. While hope of winning the war is right within their grasp, John realizes he might not be the only with special abilities. With a creative use of holograms and plotting, John and his friends, along with the Renegades, take on the T.F.G. in an exciting and unexpected battle.
Download or read book Kinetic Control written by Mark Comerford and published by Elsevier Australia. This book was released on 2012 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is designed as a clinical reference to develop knowledge of the examination, diagnosis and classification of uncontrolled movement (motor control dysfunction) and the management of movement dysfunction. It will help the therapist: Develop clinical skills in the assessment and retraining of movement control To use movement control tests to identify uncontrolled movement To classify uncontrolled movement into diagnostic subgroups Access a large range of motor control and movement retraining strategies Develop an assessment framework that will provide a diagnosis of dysfunction, pain sensitive tissues and pain mechanisms Use a clinical reasoning framework to prioritise clinical decision making
Download or read book Uncontrolled written by Jim Manzi and published by Soft Skull Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines an approach to using applications of the scientific method to address economic and social issues, citing successes in randomized trials and explaining how adjustable experiments have the potential for formulating working solutions.
Download or read book Uncontrolled Environment written by Elaine Taylor and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncontrolled Environment By: Elaine Taylor In Uncontrolled Environment, Elaine Taylor takes readers to post-World War II Oklahoma, where kids chased popsicle sticks through flooded streets and enjoyed penny candies in the rural sunshine. But, as Taylor shows us, even these golden memories are tainted by violence. Her book walks readers through uncomfortable assault and shows the ruined lives and tortured souls that result from sexual violence and racial discrimination. Uncontrolled Environment is a difficult but important exploration of women who survive these assaults. Their stories become the lighthouse for others looking for answers, peace, or validation. Taylor writes, “Black and White, wealthy and poor, workplace ‘sexual’ harassment is degrading and offensive. It hurts and destroys lives, young and old. It is illegal.”
Download or read book Face Analysis Under Uncontrolled Conditions written by Romain Belmonte and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Face analysis is essential for a large number of applications such as human-computer interaction or multimedia (e.g. content indexing and retrieval). Although many approaches are under investigation, performance under uncontrolled conditions is still not satisfactory. The variations that impact facial appearance (e.g. pose, expression, illumination, occlusion, motion blur) make it a difficult problem to solve. This book describes the progress towards this goal, from a core building block – landmark detection – to the higher level of micro and macro expression recognition. Specifically, the book addresses the modeling of temporal information to coincide with the dynamic nature of the face. It also includes a benchmark of recent solutions along with details about the acquisition of a dataset for such tasks.
Download or read book The Hudson River Airspace and Management of Uncontrolled Airspace Corridors written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uncontrolled Markets and the Inflationary Process in a Centrally Planned Economy written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1989-07-26 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes the inflationary process in a centrally planned economy which has an uncontrolled market where prices can move more freely. The maintenance of controls over prices and rationing in the economy leads to the emergence of forces that generate inflation in the uncontrolled market, and that cause shrinkage of the controlled economy as resources move into the uncontrolled market. Decontrol of prices and production of the controlled market is the optimal policy. The adoption of this policy facilitates an increase in income and aggregate demand, which raises the equilibrium prices and total production in the economy.
Download or read book U S EPA National Conference on Management of Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effect of Freezing on the Level of Contaminants in Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites written by Iskandar Karam Iskandar and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traffic Advisory Practices at Uncontrolled Airports written by United States. Federal Aviation Administration and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uncontrolled Experiments in Freedom written by Brian Ellis and published by Write Bloody Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brian Ellis' poems make me want to set fire to my house and run out of the flaming door, through the streets, the fields, up the buildings and across the moon."--Anis Mojgani, author "...every turn and sudden stop is a satisfying lurch in the direction of growing up."-- Simone Beaubien, The Boston Poetry Slam His words shiver, babble, rant and constantly threaten to fall apart under the weight of their own gravity. Ellis' colorful voice is a strong addition to the Boston spoken word tradition. A second-hand microscope examining the fuzzy science of survival, Uncontrolled Experiments in Freedom is a manic and shimmering author at his creative zenith. Filled with tangentially familiar characters--family misremembered, or friends still to be met--all delivered with deft eloquence, frank eye for unlikely detail, and inescapable sense of punk nostalgia.
Download or read book The Flight of Uncontrolled Rockets written by F. R. Gantmakher and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-17 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Series of Monographs on Aeronautics and Astronautics, Division VII, Volume 5: The Flight of Uncontrolled Rockets focuses on external ballistics of uncontrolled rockets. The book first discusses the equations of motion of rockets. The rocket as a system of changing composition; application of solidification principle to rockets; rotational motion of rockets; and equations of motion of the center of mass of rockets are described. The text looks at the calculation of trajectory of rockets and the fundamentals of rocket dispersion. The selection further focuses on the dispersion of finned rockets. Topics include the critical section of the trajectory; standard formula for calculating angular deviation; dispersion of actual rockets; and effective launcher length. The text also describes the dispersion of finned rotated rockets and of finned anti-tank rockets. The book also examines the effect of wind on the flight of rockets. Topics include correction to the coordinates of the point of impact for finned rockets; general effect of wind on dispersion; and general treatment of powered flight in the presence of wind. The text is important for readers interested in the ballistics of uncontrolled rockets.
Download or read book Understanding the Human Fibrotic Diseases Genomics Uncontrolled Wound Healing Response to Injury at Molecular Level written by Dr.Hakim Saboowala and published by Dr.Hakim Saboowala. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Understanding the Human Fibrotic Diseases’ Genomics & Uncontrolled Wound Healing Response to Injury at Molecular Level." Fibrotic disorders are implicated in nearly 45% of all deaths in the developed world. Pathological fibrogenesis is associated with an uncontrolled wound healing response to injury in which tissue is replaced by deposition of excess extracellular matrix, leading to fibrosis and loss of organ function. Classically, disease-specific triggers initiate site-specific injuries, which activate distinct cells that drive fibrosis in genetically susceptible individuals. A plethora of genome-wide association studies, microarrays, exome sequencing studies, DNA methylation arrays, next-generation sequencing, and profiling of noncoding RNAs have been performed in patient-derived fibrotic tissue, with the shared goal of utilizing genomics to identify the transcriptional networks and biological pathways underlying the development of fibrotic diseases. An attempt has been made in this E-Booklet to discus the fibrosing disorders of the Skin, Liver, Kidney, Lung, and Heart, systematically, 1. Characterizing the initial acute injury that drives unresolved inflammation, 2. Identifying genomic studies that have defined the pathologic gene changes leading to excess matrix deposition and fibrogenesis, and 3. Summarizing therapies targeting pro-fibrotic genes and networks identified in the genomic studies along with several relevant IMAGES for better understanding! …Dr. H. K. Saboowala. M.B.(Bom) .M.R.S.H.(London)
Download or read book Prevalence of Uncontrolled Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease written by Cheryl D. Fryar and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bursting of Fuel Pins in an Uncontrolled Reactor written by J. M. Gerken and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Landing Site Dispersions of an Uncontrolled Lander on Mars written by John S. White and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
